We all know Lionel Messi is pretty good. Better than pretty good, even. But when one of the best players in the world is in an interview talking about how he was scared that Messi would embarrass him on front of his family, well, that's a different type of good altogether.
You're abroad: a different language, a new culture and altogether different customs. You've been gathering up courage, repeating the appropriate local phrase over and over again in your head.
This is what traveling is all about. You make eye contact with the waiter and let that silver tongue loose. You're a cosmopolitan now.
Suddenly, the momentary pride you feel is replaced with a sinking sense of horror as the curveball arrives. Your prepared statement is returned back to you in the form of some unintelligible question.
Luis Suarez is just doing everything for Lionel Messi these days.
Messi, unable to play due to a knee injury, had Suarez shuttle him to and from the Barcelona training facility for rehab sessions. Suarez, being a good friend, happily obliged.
Now, Luis Suarez has given his good buddy Messi a present: some pajamas that Messi appears to be thrilled about.
It was quite the day for the city of Toronto yesterday. First, the Blue Jays clinched a spot in the ALCS after a wild game vs the Texas Rangers and then a Sebastian Giovinco goal for Toronto FC sent the club to their first ever playoff apperance. As the rapper Drake would say, "what a time to be alive!" Giovinco's goal for Toronto reminded us, and probably anyone who watched it, of a little Argentine that plays his futbol over the pond at Barcelona. Yes we're obviously talking about Lionel Messi, and yes Giovinco's goal mimics the likes of La Pulga.
It’s easy to predict that, without Lionel Messi, even for just a couple months, the 2015-2016 Barcelona season may be in jeopardy of falling short of expectation, nevermind silverware.
It's been speculated that Cristiano Ronaldo will leave the comforts of Real Madrid for the MLS when his contract is up in 2015, but the 30-year-old striker has admitted to having different plans.
“I want to win more. I still feel good, I feel young,” he told Marca. “I am 30 and I want to play five or six more years, and in that time I want to do things right and maintain the level of recent seasons. I know that it gets harder all the time, but in my head I think it’s possible."
Cristiano Ronaldo should be thrilled. He won his fourth European Golden Shoe, awarded to the leading scorer in all of Euope's domestic leagues.
He might not be thrilled, though, because there was one member of the audience who couldn't care less what he won: his son.
Cristiano Ronaldo's son flipped the bird at his dad during Cristiano's acceptance speech. Though the gesture was quickly twarted, the cameras caught the devious act.
Ronaldo's son might be in for a time-out.
Many small children, like Cristiano Ronaldo's son, as a consequence of having been able to talk for only a very short time, have speech impediments. The vast majority of these children grow out of it (and if they don't there is nothing wrong with that) and grow up to be adults whose parents show them videos of them trying to talk as a small child and everybody has a good laugh.
One such occasion occurred recently in Cristiano Ronaldo's life. A leaked portion of his new documentary shows his son, Cristiano Jr., trying, and struggling, to say his own name at his father's request.
July 11th, 2006: Street cleaners are still working on tidying up Berlin’s fan mile after more than half a million Germans had gathered to salute Die Mannschaft on their improbable run to third place in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Can Gareth Bale become the best player in the world? He has the potential, but just what kind of player will he be when and/or if he ascends to that status? What kind of person will he be?